And that's exactly what it's supposed to do. A few days ago I ran a diagnostic on CORE — the governance system I'm building that supervises AI-generated code. The diagnostic was supposed to investigate why a specific audit rule appeared to be silently failing. Not firing. Producing zero findings against files it should have flagged. I ran the investigation carefully. Stage by stage. I came to a conclusion. The conclusion was wrong. And I only found that out because the system itself told me so. What I thought was happening CORE has an audit rule called autonomy.tracing.mandatory . It checks that any class ending in Agent contains a mandatory call to self.tracer.record . The logic is straightforward: if an autonomous agent produces work, that work must be traceable. No tracing call — the rule flags it. My notes said the rule was firing zero findings against SelfHealingAgent — a class with, in fact, zero tracer references. A rule designed to catch exactly that situation, catching nothing.…